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Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance

Intelligent compliance and risk management solutions from Microsoft 365 help your organization assess compliance risks, govern and protect sensitive data, and respond to regulatory requirements.

• Protect and govern data wherever it lives.
• Identify and take action on critical insider risks.
• Quickly investigate and respond with relevant data.
• Simplify compliance and reduce risk.

* The Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance suite is available only to customers currently licensed for Microsoft 365 E3 or for both Office 365 E3 and Enterprise Mobility + Security E3.

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Intelligent compliance and risk management solutions

Microsoft 365 compliance solutions help your organization protect data, address regulations and standards, and mitigate insider risks.

Data loss prevention

Identify, monitor, and automatically protect sensitive information stored across Office 365 locations. Learn more
Sensitive information types

Identify and protect sensitive data including credit card, bank account, and passport numbers. Learn more
Event-driven retention

Use labels to retain content based on when a specific type of event occurs. Learn more
Advanced Message Encryption

Send and receive encrypted email messages to people inside and outside your organization. Learn more
Communication compliance

Minimize communication risks by detecting, capturing, and taking remediation actions on inappropriate messages in your organization. Learn more
Customer Lockbox

Maintain control over your content with explicit access authorization for service operations. Learn more
Advanced Audit

Gain visibility with new auditing capabilities that help with forensic and compliance investigations. Learn more

Records management

Manage regulatory, legal, and business-critical records across your organization. Learn more
Microsoft Compliance Score

Manage compliance and reduce compliance risks through a user-friendly experience that calculates a risk-based score. Learn more
Customer Key

Help meet compliance requirements by exercising control over your organization’s encryption keys. Learn more
Insider risk management

Detect, investigate, and take action on risky activities in your organization. Learn more
Information barriers

Restrict communications between specific groups of users inside your organization to safeguard internal information. Learn more
Privileged access management

Help protect your organization from breaches through granular access control over privileged admin tasks. Learn more
Advanced eDiscovery

Manage the end-to-end workflow of internal and external investigations. Learn more
Microsoft 365 compliance center

Monitor your overall compliance posture, review recommended actions, and configure settings to meet complex compliance obligations. Learn more

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Microsoft 365 E3

Get best-in-class productivity apps combined with advanced security and compliance capabilities.

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Frequently asked questions

Microsoft 365 is a cloud-based service that brings together best-in-class productivity apps from Office 365 with advance device management, intelligent security, and innovative web services. Office 365 includes apps such as Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint along with services such as Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams.

Microsoft 365 combines best-in-class productivity apps with intelligent cloud services to transform the way you work. As the world’s productivity cloud, Microsoft 365 brings together interconnectivity and intelligence that help customers innovate and compete more effectively in their digital transformation journey.

Yes. All of the Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance features are included with Microsoft 365 E5. Subsets of the features are available though the Microsoft 365 E5 Information Protection and Governance, Microsoft 365 E5 Insider Risk Management, and Microsoft 365 E5 eDiscovery and Audit offers.

Support and pricing

Microsoft FastTrack is the customer success service that helps you move to Microsoft 365 smoothly and confidently so you can deliver business value faster. Customers with eligible subscriptions to Microsoft 365 can use FastTrack at no additional cost for the life of their subscription. Sign in to www.microsoft.com/FastTrack to request assistance and get started.

Discounts are available for enterprise agreement customers (typically 250+ licenses) who want to purchase through volume licensing. A Microsoft expert can help you explore the purchasing options for large enterprises and help you determine which is best for you.

Customers with Microsoft 365 E3 subscriptions are eligible to purchase Microsoft 365 E5 compliance and Microsoft 365 E5 security as add-ons to their Microsoft 365 E3 subscriptions. Depending on the subscription level, customers can also combine their Microsoft 365 Enterprise subscriptions with plans and add-ons from Azure, Dynamics 365, Enterprise Mobility + Security, and Office 365.

Yes, your organization can use any combination of plans if you meet the prerequisites. Prerequisites vary by plan.

Microsoft has a data retention period that is typically set to 90 days for most subscriptions. This period begins upon subscription cancellation. You may retrieve your data in this period even though your subscription is disabled.